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Added 2nd HDD, laptop won't boot

I have an Acer Aspire 5560G. It came with a 750Gb HDD and a Blu-Ray drive. I wasn't using the optical drive, so decided to put in a 60Gb SSD as the boot drive, use the other drive as storage, and put the Blu-Ray into an enclosure for external use. I bought a Silverstone TS06 for this, which included the optical drive enclosure as well as a caddy to install the HDD in the optical drive slot.

The SSD has installed fine, and the computer is working well. However, when the other HDD is attached, it won't boot. It sits with a blank screen (not even the backlight), doesn't beep or reach POST, and after it's been on for about 2 seconds, the HD activity light comes on and stays on... so it's trying to read something, but I don't know what.

The second drive has been formatted, completely erased using DBAN and then formatted again. If I connect it once Windows is running, it reads the drive with no problems at all, and everything's happy. If I attempt to restart, though, the same thing happens.

I consider myself a capable computer user, but in no way a technician/expert, and I'm completely stuck for ideas. Can anyone help out here? Would be greatly appreciated.

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With both drives attached, are you able to get into the BIOS settings by hitting F2?
Doesn't sound like it would work but I've got to ask.

If you can get into the BIOS, check the BOOT tab and see if anything looks wrong in there. I don't think you'd notice if the boot order was messed up if it did not have both drives connected while you were in the BIOS screens.

Thanks again for suggestions, guys. The caddy was connecting smoothly, and seemed to be just a connector from 22-pin SATA to 13-pin slimline SATA. The HDD had no jumper initially, and my understanding was that SATA drives rarely used jumper settings?

Using a suggestion from elsewhere, I switched the drives around, and found that when either drive was connected in the main HDD bay, it was fine (either booted, or told me the OS wasn't found), but when either was attached in the caddy, the problem occurred. This pointed to caddy or mobo, I assumed.

Managed to find posts online from several other people having similar issues with Acer notebooks, and every one that solved it had done so by flashing BIOS. Unfortunately, this didn't work for me... I found one site that suggested needing a minimum BIOS version of 1.16 to solve the issue, and as fate would have it, the most recent version for this model is 1.15.

Called tech support just to check, but no dice... they couldn't offer anything more.

So the final answer seems to be that an Acer Aspire 5560G can't support a second hard drive. Not what I wanted to find out at this point.